Example sentences of "[verb] a [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protests like these may have won a first round victory for the hospital , but campaigners say the fight continues . |
| 2 | She cast a last fleeting look around the room . |
| 3 | She cast a last anguished look around , imprinting the details of the woodland glade on her memory . |
| 4 | Arrows provide a second linear means of expressing movement , and therefore the passage of time upon a canvas . |
| 5 | Despite the record unpopularity of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , the 2,500 delegates gave him a warm reception as he promised a third consecutive PCP victory in the federal elections due in 1993 . |
| 6 | Presidential elections held on March 12 , 1989 , resulted in the victory of Ratsiraka , who defeated three other candidates to secure a third seven-year term ; he was sworn in on April 20 [ see pp. 36518 ; 36678 ] . |
| 7 | The Tories were heading for disaster if they continued to delude themselves that only a little fine tuning of presentation was required to secure a fourth consecutive general election victory . |
| 8 | Morrissey , in particular , found a second artistic release in his talent for dominating interviews . |
| 9 | The ICD has added a third powerful treatment method to coronary revascularisation and antiarrhythmic drug therapies for the management of cardiac arrest survivors . |
| 10 | Some people have moved out of towns to live in the countryside , sometimes adopting a second part-time job in the rural area , while many inhabitants of rural areas have been able to obtain jobs in towns . |
| 11 | France had been hoping for a Kinnock victory , to provide a second socialist power in one of the leading EC countries to act as an ally for President Mitterrand at summit talks . |
| 12 | In 1870 , the Victorians created a third electric avenue to the Orient , another submarine cable routed via Gibraltar , Malta , Alexandria , Suez and Aden , terminating at Bombay . |
| 13 | White switched from the flank to partner Shearer in attack , but it was n't long before Taylor tried a third attacking combination . |
| 14 | Thanks to the determination and vision of Canadian Bob Spence and friends , the world has a second airworthy Fairey Swordfish . |
| 15 | If MPs have their way , these latest allegations could mean that the company soon has a second public inquiry on its hands . |
| 16 | The new racism has a third important feature which enables it to slip through the rationalist approach of those who , with the best will in the world , reduce the problem of racism to the sum of power and prejudice . |
| 17 | It also needs a second additive to help it dissolve and raises the vapour pressure of petrol , which can cause havoc with a car 's Fuel pumping system . |
| 18 | It also suggested that he would be permitted to remain as leader until the completion of his first term in October 1991 , and would possibly achieve a second two-year term . |
| 19 | Tries by Bryan Redpath , Steve Brotherstone and Andrew Redpath put Melrose 15-0 ahead at half-time and Craig Redpath added a fourth early in the second-half . |
| 20 | Of 11 rebleeders , three received a second epinephrine injection and two of them achieved haemostasis ( the failed case had successful surgical intervention ) ; six received epinephrine injection followed by pure alcohol injection and all achieved haemostasis ; two received surgical intervention directly ( one emergency operation because of massive bleeding and one elective operation because of adenocarcinoma of the stomach as well as a bleeding duodenal ulcer ) . |
| 21 | Instead , the selectors opted for Peter Richardson , who silenced the critics by qualifying for Barcelona but suffered a first round knockout by Stone 12 months ago . |
| 22 | Hamsten in a prospective trial of 109 patients under the age of 45 years who suffered a first myocardial infarction found a reduced plasminogen activator capacity and increased levels of plasminogen activator inhibitors in those patients suffering reinfarction . |
| 23 | Northern Area light heavyweight champion Terry French suffered a second successive knockout set-back when he was despatched inside one round by Castleford veteran Dave Owens . |
| 24 | Last March he suffered a second agonising defeat in the Gold Cup when Cool Ground proved just too good , and he then lost his French crown when the ground at Auteuil for this July 's Grand Steeplechase came up unsuitably soft and he could only struggle round in eighth place . |
| 25 | Last year the Home Secretary reappointed him for five years : the first of the BBC 's 17 chairmen since incorporation in 1927 to receive a second full term . |
| 26 | The USSR also began developing a second major naval support complex at the port of Mersa Matruh . |
| 27 | By way of continuing security for the payment and discharge of all moneys and liabilities owing by I.B.C. to the bank , I.B.C. granted a first fixed charge over its freehold and leasehold property and book debts , and a first floating charge over all its assets , undertaking and property , past and future . |
| 28 | In addition , under proposals to abolish Avon , the county borders would expand to its pre-1974 size , forming a fourth Unitary Council in South Gloucestershire . |
| 29 | If correct — and Samuel says a second Soviet team has independently arrived at the same figure — it lowers the previous estimate by only one per cent . |
| 30 | ‘ Who does he say he is ? ’ says a second fat lady . |